Thursday nights spell disastor!

In Egypt, our last working day is thursday so people usually go out thursday nights. I have not done that in a while primarily because the streets are just so horribly crowded that you'll never meet up with people on time and if you do you'll be in the worst mood ever. Then to top it off you go and find all the cafes, restaurants, movie theaters, etc. over booked, noisy, and full of kids! So, that's when my week day outings began! I think that is what encourages people to go out on any other day of the week but thursday! Today I went through the thursday night experience again and all it did was confirm that thursday night is the perfect day to just chill at home! My parents wanted to drive to City Stars in Nasr City (a 40 minute drive from my house in normal egyptian traffic) to check out the new stores and to have a cup of coffee. We took over an hour to get there! With the stupid way some people drive in cairo...so we got there annoyed already! Couldnt find a parking space because it seemed like all of cairo was going to city stars with us! Then after parking we took forever to enter the mall due to the crowds...and then we stayed in the mall for maybe 2 hours. We couldnt find a single to corner to have coffee in so we left and decided to go have coffee elsewhere...but that never happened. The ride back home was worse...and we got to a traffic light that was green so my dad kept driving realizing in the last second that a policeman was stopping the traffic even though the light was green! So my dad stopped but a little too late coz they had already written down his license plates! By that point my dad was like Im going home and I dont wanna go down ever again! And after all that, you think back and realize you didnt enjoy the outing one bit! All I was happy about was the 2 CDs I bought at the mall but that was about it! Enjoying thursday nights at home will continue to be my policy it seems!